KYLE, James Henderson, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, on February
24, 1854; attended the public schools; completed a course of civil engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana in 1871; graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1878; prepared for admission to
the bar, but entered the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., and graduated in 1882; pastor
of Congregational churches in Echo and Salt Lake City, Utah, 1882-1885; moved to Ipswich and
later to Aberdeen, S.Dak.; pastor; financial secretary of Yankton College; elected to the State
senate in 1890; elected as an Independent to the United States Senate in 1891; reelected in 1897 and
served from March 4, 1891, until his death; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Fifty-third,
Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses), Committee to Establish the University of the United States
(Fifty-fourth Congress); chairman of the United States Industrial Commission 1898-1901; died in
Aberdeen, Brown County, S.Dak., July 1, 1901; interment in Riverside Cemetery.